About Quotes by Anne M. Mulcahy, Ghostface Killah, James Baldwin, Alan Shearer, Ernesto Bertarelli, Michael Jordan and many others.
Football’s not just about scoring goals – it’s about winning.
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.
God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
People always talk about how time flies; it’s become sort of a colloquialism now. You don’t really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s – and I’m sure time will move even faster as I get older.
I’m living with every step. I can’t live with regret. The past is the past. I’m not worried about it. I can’t change it. I can’t fix it. It is what it is. I’m just living.
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
I eat about two meals a day vegan, is my rule of thumb. When I’m traveling, all bets are off, but I don’t cook meat in the house. I rarely cook eggs. I never use milk. But when I go out to eat for a special treat, I’ll have some meat. But I know, personally, that’s the best I’m ever going to do in my life.
I’m very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don’t worry about anything that I can’t control. That’s a really good lesson in life.
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.
So long as you’ve got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don’t really have to care what everyone else thinks.
Growing up, I knew I was different. But I didn’t know what it meant to be Aboriginal. I just knew that I had a really big, extended family. I was taught nothing about who we were or where we came from.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.
I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody‘s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
Athletics is not so much about the legs. It’s about the heart and mind.
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
I’m a workaholic. I never stop. I’m always thinking about the next play, what’s the next move, what could we do to be better than we are now. And I’m not gonna be satisfied until I’ve achieved my maximum potential.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.
The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.
I don’t think I’ve had love at first sight. But, I’ve definitely had moments where I’ve seen a person, and I’m like, ‘Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.’
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best and putting up a good show for the spectators.
I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, and I can’t say the same thing about people.
Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.’
I’m excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
Caring – about people, about things, about life – is an act of maturity.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder – don’t be tired about it.
The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, ‘Eh, I think she can handle more.’ And the angels thinking, ‘What are you doing? You’re a lunatic.’ And God being like, ‘No, no, trust me. She can handle this.’
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would’ve become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I’d be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.
Even if I’m talking about something that’s negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
My life is full of drama, and I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
There’s something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.
The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.
If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
It’s about working hard, resting when you need to, leading a healthy life, and having a support structure around you. These factors help you improve.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
That’s the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it’s easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
It’s definitely a privilege to be able to do what you love to do; it’s not something that everyone gets to do, so I feel really good about that.
In the end it’s about the work, not an award you get for the work.
I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you’ll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.
People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people‘s lives… for that I give thanks.
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
I think an eyebrow can change the way you feel. It changes everything about your confidence.
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
I’m all about colors.
It’s about learning how to slow down… I think this Covid environment that we’re in there’s a lot of sadness and a lot of pressure going on in terms of the uncertainty, but what it is teaching us or forcing us to do is appreciate the small things: be grateful for a slower pace of life.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.
What do I care about law? Ain’t I got the power?
Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about.
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Cinema is not only about making people dream. It’s about changing things and making people think.
I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it’s all said and done, it’s all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that’s one of hope.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Behaving like a princess is work. It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It’s more about how you are inside.
One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it’s about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.
People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it’s about the people you’re surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.
Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, ‘No, this not real cheating.’ So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that’s what we find, is that we’re basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I’d read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
For me, honestly, it’s not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It’s about what I’ve got to do and how I can contribute to the team.
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
Yes, money is important. But it’s all about the creative process.
Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren’t really there.
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
I don’t think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
The mark of higher education isn’t the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It’s the skills you gain about how to learn.
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.
We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others’ perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.
There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it’s just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can’t worry about.
Some people say I’ve got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I’d sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in ‘The Fifth Element.’ And I’m nothing like that blue alien. I’ve got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
Everybody is interested in success, but nobody cares about the process behind it.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.
What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They’re moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
On the course, I sometimes eat a little sandwich or a slow-release energy bar – one on the front nine and one on the back nine. You’re out there five hours, so you have to keep eating. You’re going to burn at least 1,000 calories. I’ll try to take in about 400-600 calories during a round and drink water.
Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.
You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.
I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
The cars we drive say a lot about us.
I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
The only strong opinion that I have about myself is that I don’t have any opinions.
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredients together, and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake – or not.
Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.
For me, music and life are all about style.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you’re not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don’t know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, ‘Well, why don’t they get to go to Heaven then?’
Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.
I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
Win or lose, I’ll feel good about myself. That’s what is important.
I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.
Life is all about having a good time.
Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.
Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
It’s not just about winning or losing, but to learn about teamwork, learn about sportsmanship, learn about discipline. The value of working together for a common goal. Have the emphasis on fundamentals, not just games.
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
When you get to that level, it’s not a matter of talent anymore – because all the players are so talented – it’s about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I try to work and enjoy life, and that’s about all.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.
Successful negotiation is not about getting to ‘yes‘; it’s about mastering ‘no’ and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
It’s not even about looking good; it’s about feeling good inside. Celebrity Sweat makes everyone aware of that but in a fun way with their favorite athletes.
The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.
The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That’s what I feel about it. And it’s become so integrated and integral to our lives, you wouldn’t think about leaving home without it.
I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car‘s headlights and tell you exactly which way it’s coming.
Leadership is not about you; it’s about investing in the growth of others.
If you really are passionate about it, you’re just going to find a way to make it happen.
Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
That’s the only thing I don’t like – people always got something to say about my life. I don’t know nothing about their life. People just judge you when they don’t even know you.
I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
I’m really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.
The most propagandistic element of ‘Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.
I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it’s just about how you react to them.
Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
It’s not just about being sexy, it’s about being confident and me being confident in my sexuality.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
It’s about consistency.
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
For me, whether we win or lose, every match is giving me a lot of information about how to improve.
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just… do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
No matter where I am, it’s all about one thing: My fans.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.
The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits – we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.
Because you know what happens when you say ‘hello‘ or ‘good morning?’ You make a connection. And isn’t that what being human is all about?
I give all my life to football; I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time.
Sometimes it’s more about the journey than the destination.
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
There is something attractive about taking risks.
